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Hillary Clinton’s characterized roughly half of Donald Trump’s supporters as “a basket of deplorables.” While one can quibble over percentages (some say it’s higher, others lower), it’s inarguable that many actors in Trump’s base feel free to express bigoted views about race, religion, gender orientation and nationality and engage in violence. Predictably, Trump and his lackeys are trying to convince his non-deplorable supporters — namely economically stressed, conservative, working class white folks — that Clinton was in fact referring to them. That, of course, is not the case. However, these non-deplorable voters might want to ask themselves if they mind being associated with peoplelikethis.
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Hillary Clinton’s self-made mess involving her use of a private email server during her stint as Secretary of State, and its relation to questions involving perceived favoritism shown there toward foreign donors to the Clinton Foundation, is the gift that likely will keep on giving for the GOP this fall.

Personally, I suspect this will end as all Hillary-centric tempests have — with much political smoke and no legally actionable fire.
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